Emergency Planning
DECEMBER 14, 2020
What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? The first challenge is to understand the behaviour of an emerging disease caused by a new variant of a virus. Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 11, 2020
It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. Major epidemics and pandemics (what is the difference?)
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Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.
Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed. Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic has been widely used as a pretext for curtailing human rights.
Plan B Consulting
JUNE 24, 2021
Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. As Fukushima in Japan was a major industrial manufacturing area, there was a ripple effect across the world as many components needed in manufacturing were very quickly unavailable.
Plan B Consulting
JUNE 24, 2021
Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. As Fukushima in Japan was a major industrial manufacturing area, there was a ripple effect across the world as many components needed in manufacturing were very quickly unavailable.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 7, 2019
Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack. Myth 36: In a biological terrorism attack or pandemic prophylaxis will be effective and efficient. Myth 38: The main effects of a CBRN attack or pandemic would necessarily be medical. Myth 62: Pandemic influenza is almost exclusively a medical problem.
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